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First soreness from the job this morning, I think. My right leg, often sore at the end of the route, already buzzing this morning. Some movement helps it already, but this is not the right vehicle for such a job. I regret to witness how much damage this little car has already taken.
I swung by a bank before my shift today. A very laxidazical line. Maybe just using the app is the better way, after all, but I would be remiss to give up another in-person practice, though it is likely just a matter of time. I do not mind at all exercising some patience, but the banks seem to have fewer tellers and even a line ten persons long does little to change this. Rather, it simply seems to have elicited two managers to stand over the shoulder of one teller and whisper about why things are moving so slowly.
A wonky day. The orderly system is anything but optimised. The headache is annoying at the start of the route, but by the eighth or ninth delivery, I begin to let it go. It is a cruelty of this society to be so incapable of letting our workers try their best; the shortcomings of management and automation will always require one to follow the dumber or less optimised path. 'Tis further cruelty to teach a whole generation to assume the worst of any system.
More cracks showing. For whatever reason my driver has left me waiting to return my phone to him for 49 minutes now. This system of orderly drivers is quite shoddily run, in my opinion. I am thinking of quitting. $23 an hour is not terrible, but sans benefits, provided vehicle, training, or security, and compounded with potential soreness, it does not seem as nice as I once thought.
Measuring the damage taken by my vehicle and my leg, I elected to suspend my current temporary assignment. I felt a bit like a quitter, but I quickly reminded myself that I was _also_ exercising the one major benefit awarded to temp workers: to leave the job whenever you feel.
Onwards to hopefully bigger and better things. At least it will be something different.